Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1997-11-19
1998-11-03
Tracs, Stephen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 11, 705 21, G06F 1760
Patent
active
058324585
ABSTRACT:
An automated system and method for electronically auditing point-of-sale transactions is provided. Each retail store outfitted with the present invention has at least partially automated point-of-sale system for processing a retail sales transaction in the normal operation of the retail store. A non-invasive automated electronic auditing system is disposed in each store for monitoring the point-of-sale system in a substantially totally passive manner and for collecting a copy of each retail sales transactions on the point-of-sale system. The electronic auditing system preferably includes a sensor assembly for detecting the processed retail sales transactions and a computer processor coupled to the sensor assembly for processing the detected retail sales transactions. The point-of-sale system operates independently of the electronic auditing system; the electronic auditing system operating responds to the point-of-sale system without requiring any responsive operation by the point-of-sale system and without requiring any modificaiton of the point-of-sale system. An audit system processor is also provided which is remotely located from the retail store for receiving the processed retail sales transaction data for subsequent use by manufacturers.
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Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Greibenow L. Joy
Holland Robert W.
Tracs Stephen R.
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